Ethel Kennedy: RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan shouldn't be freed
Sirhan Sirhan Parole-Ethel Kennedy FILE— In this June 5, 2018 file photograph, Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated during his 1968 presidential campaign, watches a video about her late husband during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights awards ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a brief statement released on Twitter by her daughter, lawyer and activist Kerry Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy said bluntly Tuesday Sept. 7, 2021 that her husband's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, "should not be paroled." Scott Applewhite, File) (J. Scott Applewhite)BOSTON — (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy, says assassin Sirhan Sirhan should not be released from prison, further roiling a family divide over whether the man convicted of killing her husband in California in 1968 should be freed on parole. Two other RFK offspring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, have said they support the release. Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York and the brother of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
wftv.comRFK wife Ethel Kennedy says assassin shouldn't be released
Sirhan Sirhan Parole-Ethel Kennedy FILE— In this June 5, 2018 file photograph, Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated during his 1968 presidential campaign, watches a video about her late husband during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights awards ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a brief statement released on Twitter by her daughter, lawyer and activist Kerry Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy said bluntly Tuesday Sept. 7, 2021 that her husband's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, "should not be paroled." In a brief statement released on Twitter by her daughter, lawyer and activist Kerry Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy said bluntly Tuesday: “He should not be paroled.”“Bobby believed we should work to ‘tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,’” Kennedy, 93, wrote. Two other RFK offspring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, have said they support the release. Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York and the brother of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
wftv.comRFK's oldest son condemns possible parole of Sirhan Sirhan
Kennedy, the oldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, in a statement released Sunday Aug. 29, 2021 denounced the possible parole of Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of killing his father in California in 1968. The board on Friday found that Sirhan Sirhan, 77, no longer poses a threat to society, noting that he had enrolled in more than 20 programs including anger management classes, Tai Chi and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York and the brother of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. Two of them, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Douglas Kennedy, said they supported the release of Sirhan. He was joined by Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Christopher G. Kennedy, Maxwell T. Kennedy and Rory Kennedy.
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